Williams v. Municipality of Anchorage

How courts have described this case

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• holding that, having undertaken to provide and install the ladder at a municipality dock, the municipality had a duty to exercise reasonable care to provide for the safety of those using it
• holding municipality that voluntarily supplies a ladder for access between a tugboat and a dock is under a duty to exercise some degree of care toward those using the ladder
• reasoning that facts could permit finding that municipality undertook to render a service
• reversing grant of summary judgment because there was a genuine issue of fact concerning whether a duty was undertaken when municipal employee supplied ladder, installed it, and instructed injured party on its use
• court, in reversing summary judgment, held that, “The precise nature and extent of [an assumed] duty, while a question of law, depends upon the nature and extent of the act undertaken, a question of fact.”

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